The Site

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Architects: Nicolás Pinto da Mota

Location: Nordelta Golf, Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Architect In Charge: Matias Cosenza

Project Team: Tadeo Itzcovich, Esteban Unjold, Agustin Aguirre

Area: 890.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Fernando Schapochnik

Project Manager: Matias Cosenza

© Fernando Schapochnik

From the architect. The SiteThe house is implanted on a plot on the outskirts of the city of Buenos Aires, within a typical private neighborhood. A recognizable archetype, a rectangular base prism that controls its scale in an environment characterized by its strong relation to a lake . With a slight slope in the lot, the dwelling is positioned in the North-South longitudinal direction, evidencing its more favorable and permeable side. This starting point has defined the spatial configuration of an inner ? outer relationship, which in this case is given by the orientation of lodges of various scales that compose a large volume.
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The ShapeThis theme is of vital importance, either by hollowing a solid, compartmentalizing a single volume, juxtaposing several or distributing the program into a series of separate volumes, all have the same purpose, to express the volumetry of the building in a humble and serene way. In this case the volumetric composition is achieved by a regular matrix that finds ...